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My understanding is that the X.org Foundation is the entity legally responsible for Wayland. That's not the same thing as owning the copyright or contributing development effort.

no, there's no 'wayland' outside the codebase to be legally responsible for. and the codebase is the legal responsibility of its collective copyright holders, and to a much lesser extent, whoever hosts it - which is freedesktop.org, a separate LLC.

the foundation supports open source graphics development (x.org, wayland, mesa, drm/kms, et al) through things like organising conferences, which it can only do if it can collect sponsorship money to pay for them. additionally, it also owns the x.org domain. that's it. any other kind of responsibility/oversight, including technical (even for x.org, let alone wayland) was a very explicit non-goal from the start.

no, there's no 'wayland' outside the codebase to be legally responsible for. and the codebase is the legal responsibility of its collective copyright holders, and to a much lesser extent, whoever hosts it - which is freedesktop.org, a separate LLC.

the foundation supports open source graphics development (x.org, wayland, mesa, drm/kms, et al) through things like organising conferences, which it can only do if it can collect sponsorship money to pay for them. additionally, it also owns the x.org domain. that's it. any other kind of responsibility/oversight, including technical (even for x.org, let alone wayland) was a very explicit non-goal from the start.